Donald Schaffner – Department of Food Science
Faculty
Rutgers NJAES Research Puts Autumn Leaves to Good Use
By Joseph Heckman, extension specialist in the Department of Plant Biology. Autumn leaves brighten and beautify our communities before falling in abundance as fall advances. About 300,000 tons of shade tree leaves are collected by municipalities across New Jersey every fall season. In 1988, the state of New Jersey banned the dumping of shade tree […]
NJ homeowners are using old flood data to protect their homes, putting ”lives at risk’
Marjorie B. Kaplan – Rutgers Climate Institute
NJ stink bug home invasion is now underway
George Hamilton – Dept. of Entomology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Living Shoreline Combats Coastal Erosion Caused by Sea Level Rise
Rutgers Scientists and high school volunteers from Camden are using nature to mitigate the effects of coastal erosion in Southern New Jersey. Together they built a living shoreline near the New Jersey Aquaculture Innovation Center in Cape May that uses marsh grasses and recycled oyster and clam shells. The shells, incorporated into modified concrete blocks called Oyster […]
Amid rising seas, Atlantic City has no plans for retreat
Robert Kopp – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
JC NERR Plays a Key Role in New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium
Task One: Complete Last December, the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR,) along with multiple other NJ partners and institutions, were awarded a grant to fund the implementation of the newly-established New Jersey Coastal Community Resilience Consortium. In addition to the JC NERR, partners include Monmouth University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Stockton University, […]
In Ocean County, this ‘best-kept secret’ is working to predict the next Superstorm Sandy
Oscar Schofield – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
How to Spot Early Signs of Bedbugs and Prevent an Infestation, According to Pest Experts
Changlu Wang – Department of Entomology; Rutgers Cooperative Extension
Brigantine residents express concerns about offshore wind projects
Doug Zemeckis – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
